This one isn't small, simple, or elegant like the 36 mm Pilots Watch or the new Mark XVIII from IWC this year, but it features a very cool complication. For the first time, one may now set the time zone on a multi-time zone wristwatch quickly, just by pressing and turning the bezel of this new Timezoner Chronograph. Some of this technology existed before in the form of the Vogard World Timer, but this takes things quite a few steps further.

This one isn't small, simple, or elegant like the 36 mm Pilots Watch or the new Mark XVIII from IWC this year, but it features a very cool complication. For the first time, one may now set the time zone on a multi-time zone wristwatch quickly, just by pressing and turning the bezel of this new Timezoner Chronograph. Some of this technology existed before in the form of the Vogard World Timer, but this takes things quite a few steps further.

A little background: the ability to set the time on a world time watch by turning the bezel to the name of a reference city was originally developed by Michael Vogt, whose company, Vogard, showed the technology at Baselworld in 2014, after a decade long development process. His design was purchased and further developed by IWC and is now the full production Timezoner Chronograph.

First off, the watch is a column-wheel chronograph, with the movement made in-house by IWC (caliber 89760). The hour and minute registers are combined in a single counter, and it's also a flyback chronograph. The world time indication, we should mention, is pretty radically different from anything else out there; this is not a conventional dual time zone/GMT watch. The locking bezel is coordinated with all displays, including the time, the date, and the red-tipped 24 hour hand.

It may not sound like much at first, but this is actually the first watch that allows the wearer to set the time zone via the bezel. IWC has taken the original Vogard design, and combined it with their already well known internal bezel technology from previous Aquatimers to make this new Timezoner world time chronograph. IWC has clearly designed the watch to be the ideal travel companion in terms of versatility and ease of use.

What's more? This Timezoner also takes into account the Summer months when time zones are actually one hour different from each other, and you can see the "S" on the black polished bezel to let the reader know this. While this watch is a little large (45mm x 16mm) and perhaps a bit busy for my own personal tastes, you have to appreciate the technology and genuine utility found here.